Immensee (1989)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Immensee |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Klaus Gendries |
| script | Gerhard Rentzsch |
| production |
DEFA for television in the GDR |
| music | Jürgen Corner |
| camera | Peter Krause |
| cut | Bärbel Bauersfeld |
| occupation | |
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Immensee is a German film adaptation by Klaus Gendries from 1989 . The television film is based on Theodor Storm 's novel of the same name .
action
The young Elisabeth goes on a country tour with her mother, her friends Reinhard and Erich as well as their parents and the pastor. While the adults prepare a picnic with lunch, the three youngest of the group should look for berries for dessert. The conscientious Erich collects eagerly while Elisabeth and Reinhard go looking for fruit together. They find a hiding place that they built years ago. Although they still love each other, Elisabeth is sad. Reinhard will go to another city to study the next day and will only rarely come to visit. She doesn't know how to go on living without him. As a souvenir, she picks him a water lily and he gives her a goldfinch in a cage.
After Reinhard's departure, Elisabeth lay indifferent and ill for several weeks. One day the goldfinch dies and Erich gives her a new bird. Elizabeth's courage to live is slowly awakening again. Meanwhile, Reinhard is accepted into a fraternity at the university , writes fairy tales and poems, which he sends to Elisabeth, as well as revolutionary poems, and in the fraternity's pub he gets to know the Bohemian singer Esmeralda, who apparently only sings for him and who later joins him to her room. Meanwhile, there have been changes in his homeland. Erich's father has died and Erich as a son is the new master of Gut Immensee. He has a factory built on the property and asks Elisabeth's mother for her daughter's hand at the inauguration ceremony. She agrees, but asks him to be patient, as Elisabeth is more likely to be frightened about marriage because of her age. Some time later, Elisabeth and Erich get married. Neither of them heard from Reinhard for almost two years and he does not appear when his mother is buried.
One day Erich has the tower room at Gut Immensee prepared for a guest. The guest is none other than Reinhard. Elisabeth reacts surprised and the suppressed love for Reinhard awakens again. Yet she rejects him when he gets too close to her. Reinhard plunges into the lake and wants to be drawn into the depths by the water lilies, but his will to live wins. He returns to the estate. Suddenly Esmeralda appears in the courtyard. She has joined a scissors grinder , is very poor and neglected. Reinhard instructs Elisabeth to collect all the money in the house. When Elisabeth comes back, however, Esmeralda has already moved on. Reinhard also packs his things and leaves Immensee forever.
production
Immensee was shot in Potsdam and Tangermünde , among others . The interior shots were made in the DEFA studio in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Aenne Plaumann and Margitta Hinrichs created the costumes, Alfred Thomalla created the production design . Immensee had its television premiere on December 26, 1989 on DFF 1 on the television of the GDR and ran on October 14, 1994 on ARD on national television. Icestorm released the film on DVD in 2011 as part of the DDR TV Archive series .
The Polish actor Lech Ordon will be dubbed in the film by Horst Lampe . After Am grau Strand, am grau Meer (1979) and Der Schimmelreiter (1984), Immensee was the third Storm adaptation by director Klaus Genries.
criticism
"Atmospheric adaptation of Theodor Storm's novella for television in the GDR," was the opinion of the film service .
TV Spielfilm called Immensee a “careful film adaptation of a literary classic”.
Web links
- Immensee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Immensee at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Immensee. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See tvspielfilm.de